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2022 ATRA Annual Conference IN-PERSON Intensives and Workshops Proposal

du 10 au 13 September 2022

Birmingham, AL - Educational Sessions: Birmingham Sheraton, Sleeping Rooms: Birmingham Westin

Tentative Schedule for the 2022 ATRA Annual Conference (subject to change) 

The Joy of Dementia (You've Gotta be Kidding!)

samedi 10 septembre 2022 à 08:30–12:00 CDT
Ballroom 3
Session Description/Research Abstract

Across the world, people living with dementia, care partners and other family/community members, dementia and health professionals, activists, academics and artists are coming together to develop and advocate for a diverse and humanizing vision of care and support that promotes inclusion, relationality, creativity, joy and the possibility of growth for everyone living with, and impacted by, dementia.

This experiential workshop will use improvisational games, creative exercises and philosophical/performed conversation to give participants a real-time experience in creating an environment in which “non-knowing growing” is possible. We will work together on challenging the individualized loss and tragedy narrative we are all socialized to and on freeing ourselves, if only for a moment, from a repressively cognitive culture that relates to dementia and related conditions with stigma, shame and isolation.

We welcome anyone looking for more intimate, emotionally supportive and growth-filled ways to live with memory loss, aging and dementia; who are interested in using diagnosis as a starting point for creativity; and who want to discover together how to create more connection, inclusion, hope…and yes, joy in even the most difficult and uncertain of life situations.

Primary Presenter

Mary Fridley, Eastside Institute & Reimagining Dementia Coalition
Credentials

Coordinator, Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice

Biographical Information

Mary is the founder and leader of The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta be Kidding!) as well as a coordinator for Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice. She is a columnist at agebuzz.com and serves as faculty at the East Side Institute.

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Co-Presenter/panelists

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